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I’m tired of being your shadow. Wherever you are, I’m near. I live at your dictation. I’m chained by your sight here. I used to live in silence. To love, to suffer and no words at all. If it hurts me, I bear without squirming. If you only knew, how I want to bawl. I’ve learned to be not certain, Unheard, unnoted, noneself. You see, I can be your shadow. But I’m tired! I want to be myself!
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May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM UTC
I’m tired of being your shadow
Lawns of grassy blades flow towards the nightfall through a silver dust squall snowflakes spin cascades Jack Frost pays the cost putting us under his thrall while we're held in his loll Demeter's daughter is lost Hades imparts frosty shades until Persephone's call ease's her mother's bawl ending our snowy escapades
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Jan 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM UTC
Winter
I've broken through my outer wall Only to find a cliff from which to fall I think I'll run and jump Maybe then my heart will pump With an adrenaline rush of being free Finally a smile on my face, a glimpse of glee I know I'll hit the bottom, I always do But this time there will be no need for glue I'll savour the air passing by I won't even close my eyes I'll watch the ground rush up This life was just to corrupt Now I know whats on the other side of my wall I'll leap instead of bawl
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 12:40 PM UTC
Broken Through
There hasn't been a day gone by since I first said this to you, that my undying romantic dream is to respect and believe in the terrible things you do. Last time I saw you blessed to touch another human's heart when they believed you would remove the rust you just stood in acceptance with palms open knowing you would soon shut your hands. You're a trap for madness. Blessed too, from birth to death, with a magic attracting the most fragile, those mostly broken already. Those farther from full than empty. Now and again I question if you know what you're doing or if you're possessed. Years later, you're still sitting and spinning where others improved. Boys, toys, and nicotine mixed with THC in the air to breathe. What mattered the most even to those who never spoke the words, you let impress the stress marks on your couch. And here you thought stretch marks and acne scars were the worst of life, and now you've got stretch marks and acne scars, must be due in part to the confidence you'd be no better off. Now you're no better off, than you were before. Now it's five years on, and you've learned nothing more. I can say Maybe I'd believe you If you weren't so prone to hard stop/restart
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 11:45 PM UTC
You Leave Me Lonely: "Bawl"